Hi folks,
I've just retrieved a camera that's been out for ten days, capturing the leaves filling out a lovely Pin Oak in my front garden. It's Spring here in Aus. The Camera's an Ixus160 with Ultimate Intervalomater shooting every 30 mins - 10am to 5pm daily.
I'm disappointed to find it only took 3 shots

and I need to figure out why before my next project, which I really don't want to fail.
Enable on Days option was definitely set to
ALL.
Here's a paste of ULTIMATE.0 in CHDK DATA folder, which I think is the preset.
It would appear that the Shoot on Days option is missing from the preset. The list goes from
End Min to
Dusk mode, where on the camera list there's a
Shoot on Days attribute in between those. I hope it's that simple a fix!
#shot_interval=9
#zoom_setpoint=1
#focus_at_infinity=1
#min_Tv=0
#start_stop_mode=1
#start_hr=10
#start_min=0
#dawn_mode=0
#end_hr=17
#end_min=0
#dusk_mode=0
#dow_mode=0
#latitude=449
#longitude=-931
#utc=-6
#time_offset=0
#hdr_mode=0
#hdr_offset=5
#hdr_shots=0
#file_delete=0
#start_delay=0
#maximum_days=0
#reboot_counter=3
#reboot_hour=2
#day_display_mode=1
#night_display_mode=4
#low_batt_trip=2500
#day_status_led=0
#night_status_led=0
#ptp_enable=0
#theme=0
#log_mode=2
#debug_mode=0
Here's the log entry from my failed shoot
Day -- Sat Sep 15 15:26:37 2018 === Ultimate v4.5 : 15:26 ===
Day -- Sat Sep 15 15:26:37 2018 CHDK 1.4.1 ixus160_elph160 100a Feb 1 2018
Day 1 Sat Sep 15 15:26:37 2018 Autostarted. Next reboot:3 days
Day -- Sat Sep 15 15:27:46 2018 === Ultimate v4.5 : 15:27 ===
Day -- Sat Sep 15 15:27:46 2018 CHDK 1.4.1 ixus160_elph160 100a Feb 1 2018
Day 1 Sat Sep 15 15:27:46 2018 int:1800 zoom:0 inf:true minTV:9999 mode:true
Day 1 Sat Sep 15 15:27:46 2018 startHr:10 startMin:0 dawn:false
Day 1 Sat Sep 15 15:27:46 2018 endHr:17 endMin0 dusk:false dow:0
Day 1 Sat Sep 15 15:27:46 2018 lat:449 lon:-931 utc:-6 toffset0
Day 1 Sat Sep 15 15:27:46 2018 HDR:0 offset:192 shots:1 delay:0 max:0
Day 1 Sat Sep 15 15:27:46 2018 reboot:3 rebootHr:2 LCD day:1 LCD nit:4 Batt:2500
Day 1 Sat Sep 15 15:27:46 2018 DLed:0 NLed:0 ptp:false theme:0 log:2
Day 1 Sat Sep 15 15:27:46 2018 del:0 debug:false
Day 1 Sat Sep 15 15:27:46 2018 setting zoom to 0 percent step=0
Day 1 Sat Sep 15 15:27:53 2018 start time : 10:00 stop time : 17:00
Day 1 Sat Sep 15 15:28:07 2018 key pressed
Day 1 Sat Sep 15 15:28:07 2018 menu key exit
Day -- Sat Sep 15 15:29:32 2018 === Ultimate v4.5 : 15:29 ===
Day -- Sat Sep 15 15:29:32 2018 CHDK 1.4.1 ixus160_elph160 100a Feb 1 2018
Day 1 Sat Sep 15 15:29:32 2018 Autostarted. Next reboot:3 days
Day 1 Sat Sep 15 15:29:38 2018 setting zoom to 0 percent step=0
Day 1 Sat Sep 15 15:29:45 2018 start time : 10:00 stop time : 17:00
Day 1 Sat Sep 15 15:30:02 2018 Oldest image set to : 164___09/IMG_0696.JPG
Day 1 Sat Sep 15 15:30:02 2018 V: 4.422 T: 27 Ts: 39 IMG_0696.JPG tv: 1/800 f: 3.2 ISO: 94 bv: 869
Day 1 Sat Sep 15 15:30:45 2018 set LCD off
Day 1 Sat Sep 15 16:00:02 2018 V: 4.422 T: 28 Ts: 40 IMG_0697.JPG tv: 1/640 f: 3.2 ISO: 94 bv: 862
Day 1 Sat Sep 15 16:30:02 2018 V: 4.426 T: 28 Ts: 40 IMG_0698.JPG tv: 1/640 f: 3.2 ISO: 94 bv: 856
Day 1 Sat Sep 15 17:00:00 2018 set LCD on
The camera was powered by a USB battery pack (connected via a Dummy Battery to the camera, not the Camera USB port), with six 18650 laptop type batteries and each cell reports @4V+, so it wasn't a lack of power. There is also 23GIG of free space on the SD card, so it isn't lack of storage either.
I'm off to Bali in a week to set up some cameras to monitor a pilot geo engineering project and I'm planning to use Ultimate in exactly this manner. I would normally use my Raspberry Pi, Internet connected rig for such a mission but these cameras will be underwater, 5km offshore. So I really would like to be sure there'll be some images at the end.
Please advise how I might go about debugging this
Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions
Nigel
PS. I just tried a
debug run in the hope it may add more feedback. Here's the result:
Day -- 18:40 === Ultimate v4.5 : 18:40 ===
Day -- 18:44 CHDK 1.4.1 ixus160_elph160 100a Feb 1 2018
Day 1 18:45 Autostarted. Next reboot:3 days
Day 1 22:22 setting zoom to 0 percent step=0
Day 1 02:12 start time : 10:00 stop time : 17:00
Day 1 02:13 switching to night mode
Day 1 02:32 V: 3.796 T: 20 Ts: 28 <no shot>
Day 1 03:05 V: 3.796 T: 20 Ts: 28 <no shot>
Day 1 03:32 V: 3.796 T: 20 Ts: 28 <no shot>
Day 1 04:05 V: 3.791 T: 20 Ts: 28 <no shot>
Day 1 04:33 V: 3.791 T: 20 Ts: 28 <no shot>
Day 1 05:05 V: 3.796 T: 20 Ts: 28 <no shot>
Day 1 05:33 V: 3.791 T: 20 Ts: 29 <no shot>
Day 1 06:01 V: 3.796 T: 20 Ts: 29 <no shot>
Day 1 06:34 V: 3.791 T: 20 Ts: 29 <no shot>
Day 1 07:02 V: 3.791 T: 20 Ts: 29 <no shot>
Day 1 07:25 shooting mode off
Day 1 09:48 V: 3.865 T: 20 Ts: 29 <no shot>
Day 1 10:02 shooting mode on
Day 1 12:48 setting zoom to 0 percent step=0
Day 1 16:15 switching to day mode
Day 1 17:31 Oldest image set to : 164___09/IMG_0699.JPG
Day 1 17:34 V: 3.777 T: 20 Ts: 29 IMG_0699.JPG tv: 1/15 f: 3.2 ISO: 800 bv: 24
Day 1 17:39 switching to night mode
Day 1 17:40 V: 3.782 T: 20 Ts: 29 <no shot>
Day 1 18:04 V: 3.791 T: 20 Ts: 30 <no shot>
Day 1 18:15 shooting mode off
Day 1 20:38 V: 3.865 T: 20 Ts: 30 <no shot>
Day 1 21:02 V: 3.870 T: 20 Ts: 30 <no shot>
Day 1 21:31 V: 3.865 T: 20 Ts: 30 <no shot>
Day 1 22:01 V: 3.870 T: 20 Ts: 30 <no shot>
Day 1 22:32 V: 3.875 T: 20 Ts: 30 <no shot>
Day 1 23:03 V: 3.870 T: 20 Ts: 30 <no shot>
Day 1 23:31 V: 3.875 T: 20 Ts: 30 <no shot>
Day 1 00:02 starting a new day
Day 2 00:03 start time : 10:00 stop time : 17:00
Day 2 00:03 V: 3.870 T: 20 Ts: 30 <no shot>
Day 2 00:32 V: 3.875 T: 20 Ts: 30 <no shot>
Day 2 01:02 V: 3.870 T: 20 Ts: 30 <no shot>
Day 2 01:30 V: 3.875 T: 20 Ts: 30 <no shot>
Day 2 02:00 V: 3.875 T: 20 Ts: 30 <no shot>
Day 2 02:32 V: 3.875 T: 20 Ts: 30 <no shot>
Day 2 03:03 V: 3.879 T: 20 Ts: 30 <no shot>
Day 2 03:30 V: 3.875 T: 20 Ts: 30 <no shot>
Day 2 04:02 V: 3.879 T: 20 Ts: 29 <no shot>
Day 2 04:32 V: 3.875 T: 20 Ts: 29 <no shot>
Day 2 05:00 V: 3.875 T: 20 Ts: 29 <no shot>
Day 2 05:31 V: 3.875 T: 20 Ts: 29 <no shot>
Day 2 06:02 V: 3.879 T: 20 Ts: 29 <no shot>
Day 2 06:30 V: 3.879 T: 20 Ts: 29 <no shot>
Day 2 07:00 V: 3.879 T: 20 Ts: 29 <no shot>
Day 2 07:31 V: 3.879 T: 20 Ts: 29 <no shot>
Day 2 08:03 V: 3.879 T: 20 Ts: 29 <no shot>
Day 2 08:30 V: 3.879 T: 20 Ts: 29 <no shot>
Day 2 09:01 V: 3.879 T: 20 Ts: 29 <no shot>
Day 2 09:32 V: 3.879 T: 20 Ts: 29 <no shot>
Day 2 10:00 shooting mode on
Day 2 12:46 setting zoom to 0 percent step=0
Day 2 16:07 switching to day mode
Day 2 17:13 V: 3.787 T: 21 Ts: 29 IMG_0700.JPG tv: 1/80 f: 3.2 ISO: 800 bv: 255
Day 2 17:18 switching to night mode
Day 2 17:19 V: 3.791 T: 21 Ts: 29 <no shot>
Day 2 17:35 V: 3.791 T: 21 Ts: 30 <no shot>
Day 2 17:54 shooting mode off
Day 2 20:17 V: 3.865 T: 21 Ts: 30 <no shot>
Day 2 20:31 V: 3.870 T: 21 Ts: 30 <no shot>
Day 2 21:02 V: 3.875 T: 21 Ts: 30 <no shot>
Day 2 21:30 V: 3.870 T: 21 Ts: 30 <no shot>
Day 2 22:00 V: 3.875 T: 21 Ts: 30 <no shot>
Day 2 22:28 key pressed
Day 2 22:29 shooting mode on
Day 2 01:14 setting zoom to 0 percent step=0